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Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business 

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Overview

Raising funds in an important when starting a business; find out which source of funding is most suitable for your business idea.

Duration

2 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Credential

Certificate

Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business
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Highlights

  • Access to this course for 4 weeks
  • Offered by University of Leeds
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Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business
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Course details

Skills you will learn
Trading
Who should do this course?
  • This course is part of the Going to University collection which has been specifically designed for students at schools and colleges. They provide a taster of undergraduate study at the University of Leeds and help students to decide which subject to study at university.
What are the course deliverables?
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the types of funds that can be raised to help get a business up and running.
  • Identify the factors which impact on the way a new venture is financed eg company type, the market or sector the company is trading within, the aspirations of the founders.
  • Discuss the entrepreneur??s business challenge: How can the expansion of the team??s company be funded?
  • Assess funding for a business plan.
  • Assess whether funding is required to get started.
  • Reflect on how you would approach financial sources.
More about this course
  • A successful business requires funding to get it started. There are many ways to get your business up and running, from the informal such as personal savings and borrowing, borrowing from friends and family, to the more formal avenues like bank loans, raising equity to crowd-funding. This course will help you consider the finance options available for businesses, and how to fund the expansion of a business.This is the final course in a series of six about ??starting a business??.

Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

The options available to raise capital for new ventures

Financial support in your locality

How to fund the expansion of a business

An introduction to crowdfunding

Pitch your business idea, product or service

The business plan: funding a business

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